Quotes on Technology

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.